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wtg kiddo ..... ya know i think it was like last year i was the 3rd oldest on this entire site .. your making me feel young .. thanks .. but it doesn't help
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wtg kiddo ..... ya know i think it was like last year i was the 3rd oldest on this entire site .. your making me feel young .. thanks .. but it doesn't help
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I've needed regular glasses to see my whole life, and can't read without them either... My near sightedness starts about 6 inches from my nose though. I don't think I'll ever have to use bifocals at least.from one great grandpa to an old man ...
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well damn if its really the mileage ... i'm fucked ....
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I can empathize. I started wearing glasses for near-sightedness when I was 8, then switched to contact lenses at age 16 (hard contact lenses for a long time, then eventually disposable lenses). Before having a vision correction procedure* a couple of years ago, my vision was about 20/1200. When I took my contacts out, I generally couldn't identify objects that were more than about 8 feet (2.4 meters) away (OTOH, I could read the microprint security signature line on checks (cheques), which was kind of awesome).
*SMILE (SMall Incision Lenticule Extraction); it's been amazing to see clearly without corrective lenses, and I probably won't ever need bifocals, either.
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yeah my eye sight used to be great .. then about 25 years ago ... one of my daughters wanted me to read a paper back book to her and it was just black blurry lines .. and next thing i know i needed glasses ... doc said he could fix my sight ... but me and surgery ... well lets just say me and hospitals don't mix well
I started wearing glasses at the same age; switched to hard contacts around 18; went back to glasses only around when I was 49 or so. I was having difficulty reading up close (ironically) and had started to have to wear reading glasses to do so. With glasses instead of contacts, I could just take off my glasses and get things 3-4 inches from my face. Also, the discomfort I was experiencing wearing contacts had me taking them out and trying to clean them at least once a day (note these were still hard contacts, ones I had to take out nightly and put back in); it just seemed like more hassle than it's worth.
FYI, for age comparison, I'm 59.
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Funny thing is I do need them to do that. My close enough to not be impacted by my near sightedness range is like way too close to be welding electronics! I'd burn my nose off! My mom's like "I need bifocals" cause she can't read a menu with her regular glasses... But if I take my regular glasses off I can't read the menu either. So I'm not sure what readers would do for me that my regular ones aren't already doing.
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My favorite Indiana Jones quote, "It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage." For me this is all too true. Chronologically, I am 57. However, due to a wide variety of debilitating and chronic disabilities, I am bed ridden. They say you are only as young as you feel so I must be 114 by now... I feel ancient.
If any of you are wondering what a cripple like me is doing here perving on all the porn games... That's easy... The man gear still works just fine... It's everything else that is broken! Hahaha
So, all of you kids can just stick that in your pipe and smoke it! Hahaha
As for me, at 114 I prefer a fine sativa in my pipe... Just don't pity me. Pity is weak. Although, I'm sure there are some of you that can empathize, having walked a few thousand miles in similar shoes...
Adventure ever on my friends, Phat
PS: Thanks MarsUltor for the .png as I will cherish this one... As I said, it's my favorite Indy quote.
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90% disabled, per Uncle Sam at the age of 25, but I "look healthy", so I can sympathize to a degree. Bodies are the worst. Brains too.My favorite Indiana Jones quote, "It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage." For me this is all too true. Chronologically, I am 57. However, due to a wide variety of debilitating and chronic disabilities, I am bed ridden. They say you are only as young as you feel so I must be 114 by now... I feel ancient.
If any of you are wondering what a cripple like me is doing here perving on all the porn games... That's easy... The man gear still works just fine... It's everything else that is broken! Hahaha
So, all of you kids can just stick that in your pipe and smoke it! Hahaha
As for me, at 114 I prefer a fine sativa in my pipe... Just don't pity me. Pity is weak. Although, I'm sure there are some of you that can empathize, having walked a few thousand miles in similar shoes...
Adventure ever on my friends, Phat
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PS: Thanks MarsUltor for the .png as I will cherish this one... As I said, it's my favorite Indy quote.
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I'm sorry to hear about your health challenges; life comes at us hard, all too often.My favorite Indiana Jones quote, "It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage." For me this is all too true. Chronologically, I am 57. However, due to a wide variety of debilitating and chronic disabilities, I am bed ridden. They say you are only as young as you feel so I must be 114 by now... I feel ancient.
If any of you are wondering what a cripple like me is doing here perving on all the porn games... That's easy... The man gear still works just fine... It's everything else that is broken! Hahaha
So, all of you kids can just stick that in your pipe and smoke it! Hahaha
As for me, at 114 I prefer a fine sativa in my pipe... Just don't pity me. Pity is weak. Although, I'm sure there are some of you that can empathize, having walked a few thousand miles in similar shoes...
Adventure ever on my friends, Phat
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PS: Thanks MarsUltor for the .png as I will cherish this one... As I said, it's my favorite Indy quote.
That's my favorite Indiana Jones quote, too, followed closely by this one:
Supposedly, the story behind this is that George Lucas was vacationing in Hawaii, and he invited Steven Spielberg, Lawrence Kazdan, and Phillip Kaufman to come join him so that he could discuss a project with them. One evening, Lucas started telling them the story that would become Raiders of the Lost Ark, and they were thoroughly engrossed. He got to the point where the Nazi convoy with the Ark is leaving the excavation site headed for Cairo, when someone (I think may have been Lawrence Kazdan) asked George Lucas, "Okay, so what happens next?", to which he responded, "I don't know; I'm making this up as I go." It made it into the movie, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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This is pity... don't do that...
And... like George Lucas and Indy... I'm making this shit up as I go too... Hahaha
Adventure ever on my friend, Phat
The second half is closer to empathy... To empathize is to "walk a mile in another's shoes" so to speak, to see through their eyes from their point of view. Sorry is weak. Why are you sorry? It's not your fault. Break the pity chain and empathize with others instead. We are all better off replacing pity with real empathy. Peace
That is more of a "been there, done that" approach which is the road to empathy...
And... like George Lucas and Indy... I'm making this shit up as I go too... Hahaha
Adventure ever on my friend, Phat
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I for one welcome our transhumanist overlords.The pr0 gamer move is not to have either...
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Poor choice of words on my part.This is pity... don't do that...
The second half is closer to empathy... To empathize is to "walk a mile in another's shoes" so to speak, to see through their eyes from their point of view. Sorry is weak. Why are you sorry? It's not your fault. Break the pity chain and empathize with others instead. We are all better off replacing pity with real empathy. Peace
That is more of a "been there, done that" approach which is the road to empathy...
And... like George Lucas and Indy... I'm making this shit up as I go too... Hahaha
Adventure ever on my friend, Phat
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It certainly wasn't my intent to express pity, but rather compassion through a feeling that, on one level I wish you weren't faced with the challenges you mentioned (as I wish for the best for my friends, in general), but I also understand that is an empty wish, and know that what we make of our challenges is what really matters.
Adventure ever on, indeed!
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Maybe Ray Kurtzweil can invent "golems" for us to house our consciousness/essence as part of the coming technological singularity...
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